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Palaeogeography and palaeoenvironments of northern Patagonia from the Late Cretaceous to the Miocene: the Palaeogene Andean gap and the rise of the North Patagonian High Plateau

  1. EUGENIO ARAGÓN1,2,3,*,
  2. FRANCISCO J. GOIN3,4,
  3. YOLANDA E. AGUILERA2,
  4. MICHAEL O. WOODBURNE5,6,
  5. ALFREDO A. CARLINI3,4,
  6. MARTHA F. ROGGIERO2,3,7

Article first published online: 31 MAY 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01684.x

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Special Issue: Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimatology of Patagonia: Implications for Biodiversity

Volume 103, Issue 2, pages 305–315, June 2011

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ARAGÓN, E., GOIN, F. J., AGUILERA, Y. E., WOODBURNE, M. O., CARLINI, A. A. and ROGGIERO, M. F. (2011), Palaeogeography and palaeoenvironments of northern Patagonia from the Late Cretaceous to the Miocene: the Palaeogene Andean gap and the rise of the North Patagonian High Plateau. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 103: 305–315. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01684.x

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  1. 1

    Centro de Investigaciones Geológicas (UNLP-CONICET) La Plata, Calle 1 n°644, B1900FWA La Plata, Argentina

  2. 2

    Universidad de Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Av. 60 y 122, B1900FWA La Plata, Argentina

  3. 3

    CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)

  4. 4

    División Paleontología Vertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, B1900FWA La Plata, Argentina

  5. 5

    Department of Geology, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA

  6. 6

    Research Associate, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History

  7. 7

    Centro Parasitológico y de Vectores (UNLP-CONICET CCT La Plata), Calle 2 No. 584, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Av. 60 y 122, (1900) La Plata, Argentina.

* E-mail: earagon@cig.museo.unlp.edu.ar

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  1. Issue published online: 31 MAY 2011
  2. Article first published online: 31 MAY 2011
  3. Received 9 March 2011; accepted for publication 9 March 2011

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